Build a Social Network Map from a Text
This recipe extracts information about perceived social networks from a text populated with references to individuals.
Ingredients
- An electronic text containing known relationships to explore
- A Collocation tool such as the TAPoR Find Collocates Tool
- A Concordance tool such as the TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool
- A Co-occurrence Tool such as TAPoR Find Co-occurrence Tool
- A List Words tool such as the TAPoR List Words Tool
- A Synonym Finding Tool such as Eva at POETS
This recipe needs a good exercise to demonstrate how to Exercise to Build a Social Network Map from a Text?Steps
- Take an electronic text from a source such as Project Gutenberg known to contain relationships between entities
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- Generate a list of words that indicate relationships using a tool such as WordNet ;(Can the exercise do this with something like Romeo and Juliet…determine who’s related to who, which side one is on?)
- Prepare text by removing any added infrastructure ;
- Use a List Words tool such as the TAPoR List Words Tool to get an idea of whether relation-indicating words occur in the text you are using;
- Use Concordance tool such as the TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool on the text to with the relationship words;
- Take the results and use the collocation tool to assemble a list of relationships…..
- Could word tagging be useful here to indicating actions and objects of action?
Discussion
Finding a Text
Possible sources for electronic texts are listed on the Electronic Texts Panel of TAPoR. When preparing text for analysis, you should be aware that academic infrastructure included in the text may obstruct reading the text for its original construction. It may be useful to remove notes and other materials added by subsequent authors from the original work. You can use tools such TAPoR Extract Text to remove added material.WordNet Service
WordNet is one of many web services available which will provide word senses, synonyms, antonyms and other related words for terms that you enter. For more information see WordNet or Eva at POETS. In this case, to determine relationships involves distinguish between objects and people as well as between the parties relating to one another. To make this distinction…Glossary
A Complete GlossaryNext Steps/Further Information
- List of All Recipes
- Exercise to Build a Social Network Map from a Text?
- An Interesting Discussion relating to gender and speech
- The Social Factors of Speech
- Help with Particular Tools
- Background on Text Analysis
- Information about the TAPoR Collocation Tool
- Information about the TAPoR Concordance Tool
- Information about the TAPoR Co-occurrence Tool
- Information about the TAPoR List Words Tool